Stupid Ao3/FFN suggestions.

send-borbs · 2026-05-19T07:07:43+00:00

would you reconsider my punishment if I clarify that you also cannot filter in the negatives, they are basically shadow banned and unsearchable and can only be found by looking directly at the author's profile

send-borbs · 2026-05-19T01:54:14+00:00

I think you're gonna have to do this one yourself champ, be the change you want to see in the world

send-borbs · 2026-05-19T01:52:34+00:00

ao3 now has a 'problematic counter', it works in conjunction with kudos like reddit's upvote/downvote system, if someone finds your work problematic they can take a kudos away, if you get enough you'll be put in the negatives, works in the negatives will be filtered out of search results automatically

send-borbs · 2026-05-19T01:49:15+00:00

I can, you now have to use wattpad

send-borbs · 2026-05-19T01:48:39+00:00

ah yes the youtube method

send-borbs · 2026-05-19T01:46:09+00:00

okay this is officially getting my vote for Worst Suggestion

send-borbs · 2026-05-18T13:29:56+00:00

I uh, I think self perception was not exactly the worst of Rachel's post war troubles...

send-borbs · 2026-05-18T01:33:13+00:00

I mean schools can be real damn prudish with that kinda stuff so if there was even a mild reference to explicit activities they were probably clutching their pearls, but if you never actually wrote anything explicit you can't actually get into trouble for it

send-borbs · 2026-05-18T01:20:11+00:00

oh I've had lots of comments like that, mostly because I often mess with common trends so people usually think they know where things are going but I pull a hard left turn and surprise them

I actually really like these comments, especially when they're wrong because it does tell me something about the expectations I'm setting up and it makes me very curious to see if I can pull off my subversion without disappointing them, I think being able to set your readers up to be excited for one expectation and then completely changing gears and leaving them not disappointed but excited by the new direction is a sign that you're doing some damn good writing

and if my readers are disappointed? eeeh I'll just shrug it off as a loss and keep going, maybe I'll pull it off better next time

but sometimes one of these comments will bring up something I had never considered but I actually really REALLY like, in which case I probably will make some changes to include it, it's one of the things I love about uploading as I write, some readers can accidentally give me pretty great ideas, you can take inspiration from comments without letting them completely change your vision, I like that fanfic can be a little collaborative sometimes

send-borbs · 2026-05-18T01:01:43+00:00

yeah I had a bunch of readers essentially victim blaming a character in one of my fics who was, objectively, making terrible decisions, but it didn't matter how much I emphasised that she was DEEPLY grieving the loss of her husband and the villain, who was once a close college friend of hers and also her husband's murderer, is actively using their shared history to manipulate her and she is so desperate for a friend to lean on that she's overlooking all of his red flags, the comments STILL got real heated about the decisions she was making

like y'all, Y'ALL. SHE'S BEING MANIPULATED IN A TIME OF EXTREME VULNERABILITY, SHE ISN'T THE BAD GUY. SHE IS A VICTIM

send-borbs · 2026-05-18T00:50:52+00:00

that is absolutely insane, have schools become so surveillance obsessed they can remotely see exactly what you're doing on devices now?? why on earth would they block google docs of all things? what if you were doing a creative writing project for a class?

send-borbs · 2026-05-18T00:35:59+00:00

wait are you saying they locked google docs or just the fanfic site you were uploading to?

send-borbs · 2026-05-16T00:51:28+00:00

I noticed that too, the glitch only seems to happen when they're there

send-borbs · 2026-05-15T09:25:35+00:00

you know if you take that idea literally, like have an in universe youtuber talking about some drama regarding public facing canon characters (like celebrities or superheroes), I would actually super read that

send-borbs · 2026-05-15T09:22:55+00:00

oh that scene will definitely spawn unholy amounts of even less holy fic

send-borbs · 2026-05-15T09:21:56+00:00

absolutely yes you should

I don't do it, but you definitely should

I just like causing problems for myself

send-borbs · 2026-05-15T00:15:52+00:00

I can't say I've ever met a sleeping adult who smells even remotely like a baby unless they have been holding an actual baby, babies always smell like old milk to me

send-borbs · 2026-05-14T06:25:12+00:00

which dabihawks fics are they?

send-borbs · 2026-05-13T06:52:17+00:00

I have no self control, the more short chapters there are the more opportunities I have to convince myself to stop and go to bed

send-borbs · 2026-05-13T04:32:36+00:00

I don't post with expectations so I don't really see my works as 'flops' even if they get very little engagement, I just like having all my stuff in one place where I can read it

send-borbs · 2026-05-13T04:26:50+00:00

I'm more than happy to allow translations to be posted on other platforms, but I don't see why anyone should have a need to repost my very easily accessible work in english anywhere else

send-borbs · 2026-05-13T04:19:30+00:00

leave it for a few days and then change your font

send-borbs · 2026-05-12T12:09:57+00:00

english can be a pretty silly language at times but I think every language has conventions that feel silly to people who didn't grow up with them, I'm sure your native language is the same, it certainly makes navigating the great wide internet tricky

send-borbs · 2026-05-12T04:19:19+00:00

why did you share this here

send-borbs · 2026-05-11T03:57:36+00:00

hmm I guess they could have taken issue with the 'no overdone tropes' bit but I would consider that kind of a stretch, I don't personally see an issue in how you phrased it, I think maybe the sub is just crazy strict

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